Converting monsters from Dungeon Magazine

[Shade]

Agreed. The poison breath should adequately represent her venomous aspects.

I like this creature, as it's reminiscent of the retriever, a demonic construct. It also reminds me quite a bit of the blackstone gigant in Fiend Folio, one of my favorite newer creatures.

I'd imagine the stats will closely follow the greater stone golem's: Str 37, Dex 7, Con —, Int —, Wis 11, Cha 1, which perfectly emulates a blackstone gigant's physical scores downsized to Huge.

 

[demiurge1138]

Wait... Vudra?! James Jacobs, you clever bastard... Vudra is the India analogue in Pathfinder!

 

[Shade]

That guy is the best.

Added to Homebrews.

Natural armor? Greater stone golem has +21; blackstone gigant has +27

 

[Leopold]

+24 Natural Armor

 

[demiurge1138]

Agreed to +24. Strike a balance twixt the two.

 

[Shade]

Sounds good.

SA breath weapon (60’ x 60’ poison cloud once/turn; save or die after 1d4 rounds of helplessness)

Modify the iron golem's breath weapon?

Breath Weapon (Su): 10-foot cube, cloud of poisonous gas lasting 1 round, free action once every 1d4+1 rounds; initial damage 1d4 Con, secondary damage 3d4 Con, Fortitude DC 19 negates. The save DC is Constitution-based.

SD magical weapons needed to hit; edged/pierced weapons inflict half damage

DR 15/bludgeoning and magic? Or switch to /adamantine like the stone golem and blacktone gigant?

 

[Leopold]

Yes, modify the breath weapon for size 60x60, keep damage the same, this is a semi-avatar of a goddess/demoness after all, it's gonna hurt when it does this. We could reduce the radius if it's too deadly.


I like the DR/15 bludgenoing and magic. These are bad mama jammas but not invulnerable. Shame we can't restrict it to +X magic weapons.

 

[demiurge1138]

I prefer adamantine DR. It's construct standard. We could make it adamantine and bludgeoning if we wanted to be really mean.

As for the breath weapon, how about initial damage unconcious for 1d4 rounds, secondary damage 3d4 Con or death? I'd rather make the secondary damage death. These guys are high-CR, after all, and there's precedent (pit fiends). But if the majority decides to go for Con damage, I won't fight it.

 

[Shade]

Let's be really mean.

I'm usually opposed to straight-out death, but these are special links to one of the cruelest creatures the Multiverse has to offer, so why not?

 

[freyar]

Death is good for the poison, it should be tough.

I'm fine with adamantine and bludgeoning if we're being mean.